Scaffold support



Mar; 3, 1925.

c. scHLEGEL scAFFoLD SUPPORT 'Fi-led April'z's, 1924 Il la Carl 50h/lege), BJW

Patented Mar. 3, 1925.

UNITED STATES CARL SCHLEGEL,`O'F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

STCAFFOLD SUPPORT.

Application led April 23, 1924. Serial Nro. 798,546.

To @ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be. it known that I, CARL Sol-ILEGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State o-f Indiana, have invented a new and useful Scaffold Support, of which the following is a specification.

Wy invention relates to an improvement in scaffold supports whereby a safe, secure and rigid means is had of supporting hangers on posts and columns such as are found in store rooms and the like. It is often desired to decorate the ceilings in roo-ms containing stock and fixtures so arranged as to make the use of ladders or similar scaffold supporting means inconvenient or even impractical, and my scaffold support was con ceved to support the scaffolding entirely independently of any means resting on the floor.

F urther objects of my invention are the adaptability of my scalfold support to any style of post, round, square, fluted, etc., of any sectional dimensions; the provision of means of drawing the hanger up into secure contact with the post; and the forming of the support bracket so as to be detachably and reversibly secured to the supporting means on the post such that the entire bracket and support do not have to be held up while the suppo-rt is being made fast to the post and such that the bracket will accommodate any desired arrangement of the scaffolding.

I accomplish these objects by the means as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my scaffold support mounted in place on a post here shown as a short sect-ion; Fig. 2 a horizontal section taken on the line 2*-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 a side elevation of the scaffold support, showing the bracket rev-ersed from the position as in Fig. 1.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the various views.

A. base 5, preferably made of a material having a high coefficient of friction, such as wood, is adapted under some conditions of use to contact the supporting post 6, and though not absolutely essential, I prefer generally to attach the strips 7 to the back vertical edges of the base 5, to give the base a good seating grip on cylindrical surfaces. To the front side of the base 5, I secure a plate 8 having two projecting cap screws 9.

The bracket 10 is composed of the vertical member 11, the horizontal arm 12, the diagonal brace 13, and the spacing guides 14. The vertical member 11, is cut through by the holes 14 from each of which extend vertically upwardly and downwardly the slots 15,'such that the bracket 10 may be attached to the plate 8 by allowing the cap screws 9 to extend through the holes` 14 and then pushing the bracket downwardly such that the upper slots 15 engage with the shanks of the cap screws and the bracket 10 so retained by the cap screw heads, the slots 15 being narrower than the diameter of the cap screw heads 9.

The plate 8 has hooks 16 and 17 projecting laterally from the sides of the plate, onto which hooks are hooked the chains 18 and 19 extended around the post 6 and hooked at suitable lengths onto the hook bar 20. A hand screw 21 passes centrally and screw threadedly through the hook bar 20 and has a bearing plate 22 swivelly attached to its end to bear against the post, as an increased bearing surface for the hand screw end. By tightening up the hand screw 21, the hook bar 2O travels outwardly from the post 6, and thereby through the chains 18 and 19 pulls the plate 8 and its related parts tightly against the post 6. A second series of hooks 16 and 17, chains 18 and 19, hook bar 20 and hand screw 21 may be used where extremely heavy work is to be undertaken, although the one set as described is usually sufficient.

The bracket 10 is placed on theplate 8 in the position shown in Fig. 1, with the diagonal brace 18 uppermost when it is desired to use a stringer 28 set on edge between the guide members 14 to support transverse kick boards 24.

The bracket 10 may be reversed and secured to the plate 8 as shown in Fig. 3 to bring the horizontal member 12 uppermost to support a kickboard 24. The member 12 is provided with an upwardly extending end 25 to prevent the board 24 from slipping off the member 12.

Having fully described my invention in the form now best known to me, what I claim and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. In a scaffold support, a plate having a plurality of cap-screws projecting from one side, means for removably securing the plate to a post, and a bracket comprising a verti- Cil cal member, a horizontal member1 and a diagonal brace member, said vertical member having means for looking the bracket to the cap-Screws with the horizontal member at the top of the vertical member or at the bottom of the vertical member. Y

2. In a scaffold support, a plate having a plurality of cap-screws`- projecting from one side, means for removably securing the plate to a` post, and a bracket comprising a vertical member`r a horizontal member, a diagonal member and spacing guides parallel with the Vertical member, saiol vertical member having means for locking the bracket to the cap-screws with the horizontal member eX- tending from the top or bottom of the vertieal: member.

CARL SCHLEGEL.. 

